To everyone commenting in this thread, the only real difference between modern and old gangsters is that the old gangsters were more organised and were about business. Today, it's more about the fun of it. The old ones did it because that was without a doubt the best way they could provide for their families.

"I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man, to be treated with respect. But I must say no to you and let me give you my reasons. It's true I have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn't be so friendly if they knew my business was drugs instead of gambling which they consider a harmless vice. But drugs, that's a dirty business."

They ran it like a business, with moral codes and obligations. Gangs today will off someone in their own gang. You look at the mafia, being in the family means no one in the family is gonna **** with you unless the Don orders it.

no, no i'm afraid your wrong. Well, your right in that of course he killed them if they did that, but he would kill people out of paranoia. If he had a rumor that someone was cuttin ******** on his runs he would have them beaten and killed in an alleyway. ALL gangsters did this. Just because they dressed nicer didn't mean ****. That was just the fashion back then. Hell, look at the cartels back then, it's just as bad as it is now.